Your child's future is in jeopardy!

The federal government is making a sweeping takeover of education and the economy. The major parts are known as:

• Goals 2000

• School-to-Work

• Workforce Investment Act

Call it the “new system.” Your fastest understanding comes from an infamous letter discussing the intentions for the new system — most of which was passed into the above federal laws. The letter speaks openly, and is easier reading than the jargon-filled government documents quoted deeper in this website. Hear it straight from the horse’s mouth. Please take a few minutes to read Marc Tucker’s “Dear Hillary” Letter.

You are probably surprised at its radical nature, and you are wondering, “Why wasn’t I told this before?” You just discovered another lamentable thing about the new system — its stealth. The typical voter, indeed the typical legislator, knows little about this wholesale restructuring of our American system that will affect all Americans.

Our task is to explain the new system, and deeper in this website we document our claims by citing various authorities. Please be patient, as there are many angles to discuss. Once you understand the basics, the advanced material is given deeper in this website. But at first we introduce the issues simply.

This new system is bad because:

1. It destroys academic freedom. It removes free choices from teachers, parents, and students.

2. It is outcome-based education (OBE) for producing “standardized” students, who have “equal knowledge.”

3. It emphasizes subjectivity. It de-emphasizes academics, knowledge, and the qualities needed to keep a nation free.

4. It requires an abundance of paperwork of dubious value to education.

5. It measures “success” in a peculiarly bad way.

6. It has perverse incentives.

7. It indoctrinates and filters students for a particular political ideology.

8. It delivers a dumbed-down education.

9. It invades privacy.

10. It is worse for the poor.

11. It pushes parents aside.

12. It is promoted through illusions and misleading words.

13. It will be difficult for families to escape.

14. It aims to “standardize” job requirements across the nation — a task that is impossible and unnecessary.

15. It is needlessly costly, and its higher costs are concealed from voters.

16. It is a bad way to govern.

Washington DC is driving the system into all fifty states, though Minnesota implementation is farther along. In Minnesota the system often has the name “Profile of Learning,” or the “Profile.” It goes by different names in other states, but is nearly the same everywhere because they are all driven from the same source, the federal government. For this reason our Minnesota information will illuminate your own situation, no matter what state you happen to live in. For example, see the tactics used in St. Paul, Minnesota, and notice the similarity to your situation!

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Use the above links as entry points, and follow those to drill deeper. Return to this page until you understand the basics.